With their two children tagging along behind them, Evan and Michelle walked through the castle gate into the main square of the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. That's when Michelle had a brief but intense déjà vu experience. "This is so strange," she said to Evan. "It's like I've experienced this moment before." What Michelle was not remembering was that she had experienced this moment before-in scenes on the Disney channel. This examples shows that a disruption in _____ is one way to explain many déjà vu experiences.
A) prospective memory
B) echoic memory
C) source memory
D) iconic memory

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Source memory refers to the ability to remember the source of a particular memory or information. In this case, Michelle's experience of déjà vu was due to a disruption in her source memory as she was not able to recall that she had seen this scene before on the Disney channel.

With Their Two Children Tagging Along Behind Them, Evan and Michelle